Day: September 12, 2008

Oh no! He confused Star Trek with Star Wars! Geeks of the world are in an outrage! Oh my!

LHC Scientist Confuses Star Wars with Star Trek, Universe Doomed

“NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT. (Agencies) The scientific world is shocked today as Michael Zeller—a professor of physics at Yale who has been working at the Large Hadron Collider—reportedly misquoted the Star Trek tagline “Where no man has gone before” and, further shattering the Universe time-space fabric, attributed it to Star Wars: ‘What did they say in ‘Star Wars’? We’re going where no man has ever been? Well, that’s where we’re going,’ Zeller said in declarations to the Yale Daily News about the LHC first beam test last Wednesday. Professor Zeller helped create the zero degree calorimeter used in Atlas, one of the main experiments at CERN’s multi-billion dollar Large Hadron Collider.”

The dreaded “Blue Screen of Death!” (Wasn’t Vista never supposed to get those?) Well, it does… and iTunes 8.0 is causing it!

Latest iTunes 8 update causes Vista user headaches

“Some Windows users are getting the infamous “blue screen of death” after installing the iTunes 8 update, which some say tracks back to extra software that is being installed along with the software. Users posting on Apple’s support forums began reporting the issues almost immediately after the software’s release. “Whenever I plug in my ipod nano, I get a blue screen death,” the initial poster reported. “Before itunes 8 I never seen a blue screen with vista since it came out.” [sic] The 300-odd replies that followed reported similar troubles. The problem seemed to be triggered by any Apple iPod device being attached, and in some cases users had to restore in order to regain access to their machines. A downgrade back to iTunes 7.7 seems to be a remedy, although in order to avoid errors, users must apparently uninstall all Apple software. This could result in some data loss. The problem appears to be centered around an update to a driver known as “GEARAspiWDM.sys.” Its use in Windows is to help third-party applications write to CD and DVD drives, but it also has a history of causing trouble in the form of system crashes. Another driver being identified in crash reports is an updated USB controller driver, which appears to be in use when the iPod device is connected. Since the crash happens as the iPod is recognized via USB, this is a likely cause.”